As Jesus drew
near Jerusalem, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If this day you only
knew what makes for peace but now it is hidden from your eyes. For the days are
coming upon you when your enemies will raise a palisade against you; they will
encircle you and hem you in on all sides. They will smash you to the ground and
your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another within
you because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
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Reflection:
Why is it
that some people are so peaceful even if they have their own share of life’s
burdens? The reason behind is they’ve learned to surrender everything to Jesus.
They listen to Jesus by way of their active prayer life and they’ve let Jesus
take control of their lives and not them taking control.
When Jesus
was nearing Jerusalem, He was very sad and He wept for its people because they
did not listen to God’s call of repentance (Through the prophets). They
purposely blinded themselves to the reality of repentance. Why? Because they
love to sin and they liked what this sinful world offered them. They never
cared to be concerned of the punishing outcome of their sinfulness.
Jesus loves
us so dearly that He wants all of us to listen to Him. So that we could be
spared of the dreadful punishment that is due to those who do not care to
listen to Him. He also weeps for us everytime we sin, everytime we don’t
to listen to Him.
When
everything is said and done and we are already suffering for the reason of our
sinfulness we have nobody to blame but ourselves. However, why let this very
harsh event called punishment come to us? When we could actually avoid it by
means of opening our hearts to the love and mercy of Jesus. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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